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Health & Safety

Health and safety is at the heart of everything we do. We want everyone to
go home everyday in the same condition in which they arrived. The health and
safety of our own workers, sub-contractors, site visitors, clients, customers,
the general public and anyone else who may be affected by our works is very
important.

We keep all our staff and operatives fully trained with all the skills they
need to carry out their work safely. But we also hold regular health and safety
consultation meetings that give everyone the opportunity to exchange information
and feedback to us too. Maybe workers would like to receive some specific
training, maybe they want to tell us about some of their experiences on other
sites or of best practices and innovations.

The culture of health and safety within the working environment is essential
to keeping everyone exposed, safe. But the focus also needs to be on the health
side of the coin as well as the safety. Lots of the measures that we put in
place to protect a workers immediate safety also help to protect their long
term health. By ensuring, with training and knowledge, that our workforce
understand the risks to their long term health from such things as dust and
manual handling also helps to improve their overall immediate safety.

The education of our workforce is the key to our health and safety success.
If someone understands why they have to do things a certain way or with certain
equipment and what could go wrong if they try and cut corners or improvise,
helps them to stay safe and helps them to keep their colleagues safe too.
All of our workers are aware of their own responsibilities as individual employees
and the onus this places on them. The awareness of this responsibility also
helps to keep everyone who may be affected by our works, safe.

Identification and elimination of risk is the key component to creating a
safe working environment. If the risk can not be eliminated entirely then
controlling it is the next step. To aid our workforce we invest in new plant
and equipment regularly to reduce such conditions as hand arm vibration and
to minimise work activities like manual handling. We ensure that PPE is available
and suitable for the task at hand and if any individuals have specific needs,
we consult with them to ensure these needs are met.

With experience of working as both main/principal contractor and as a sub-contractor,
you can be assured that your works are in safe and knowledgeable hands. We
fully understand our responsibilities in both roles and our experienced, SMSTS
trained site managers and SSSTS trained supervisors will ensure safe and efficient
delivery of all projects.